Evaluation of the Dutch preventive Youth Health Care (YHC) Overweight Prevention-protocol and Overweight Detection-protocol among 5-year-old children in a cluster randomized trial
Recruiting
- Conditions
- niet van toepassing
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 7200
Inclusion Criteria
All 5-6 year old children in the second year of primary school during school year 2007/2008, which are invited for the 'PGO' will be invited to participate in the study.
Exclusion Criteria
The children and their parents should be able to read and understand the basics of the Dutch language, because questionnaires and consults will be used in the study. Severely mentally or physically disabled children will be excluded. In these cases the YHC-professional should make a well-considered decision to invite or not invite these children and their parents to participate in the study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>Evaluation of the prevention protocol:<br /><br>· Change in waist circumference 24 months after the *PGO-5 to 6-year-olds* in<br /><br>children with *overweight not obesity* in the Intervention group relative to<br /><br>the Control group.<br /><br>· Relative change in Body Mass Index 24 months after the *PGO-5-year-olds* in<br /><br>children with *overweight not obesity* in the Intervention group relative to<br /><br>the Control group.<br /><br><br /><br>Evaluation of the detection protocol:<br /><br>· Predictive value of the labels *normal weight*, *overweight but not obesity*,<br /><br>and *obesity* at the *PGO-5-year-olds* according to the Detection-protocol for<br /><br>the presence of these labels at age 7 years.</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method